What makes you think all countries will both A. require citizens to obtain a license to speak publicly in the form of a computer program and B. choose a local subsidiary of Microsoft as the administrator of said license program?
a TiVo DVR will not function without a TiVo subscription.
secondly you pay ONCE for lifetime program guide on TiVo and never have to pay again for the life of the box
The price of a $200 TiVo DVR and its required $550 All-In Plan will pay for at least a couple years of cable TV, particularly if your cable provider offers a "double play" bundle that includes TV for only $240 per year more than Internet-only service, and particularly if the DVR breaks soon after its factory warranty expires.
the service is getting USA, FX, FreeForm, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, and Fox Business. [...] the service includes national coverage from ESPN, FoxSports, and NBC SportsNet. Also offered are regional sports networks from Fox and Comcast, SEC Network, Big Ten and ESPNU
Sure glad I have an antenna on the roof and TiVo in my living room and can get all that for 100% free.
First, none of the channels mentioned in this quotation of the summary are available through a rooftop antenna. They are exclusive to multichannel subscription television. Second, a TiVo DVR will not function without a TiVo subscription.
I have not built up an infrastructure depending on computers I don't own, don't control
I'm interested in how you eliminated dependencies on your home ISP's DHCP server
I have static IPs.
First, most home ISPs charge extra per month for that. Second, Comcast requires subscribers with a static IP to either forfeit the static IP or rent and use Comcast's modem, which reintroduces "depending on computers I don't own, don't control", and moving to an area whose cable company is not Comcast can prove cost prohibitive, particularly if your work is unrelated to your website.
I don't serve HTTPS. I'm not collecting information about you, or serving illegal or secret information.
Making even a completely public, completely static website available over cleartext HTTP and not HTTPS has three consequences. First, the most popular western web search engine will demote your site. Second, you run the risk of a rogue ISP injecting pop-up advertisements and other malware into your pages, as Comcast has done (source 1; source 2). Third, you cannot make resources on your site available for transclusion into sites that do use HTTPS due to the mixed content policy.
And without advertisement exchanges or subscription payment servers, how do you afford to keep your server powered on and connected to the Internet?
I work.
Is your work related to your website? If not, what benefit do you gain from having a website, and do you ever have to take time off your day job to keep it updated?
When many people concentrate their dependencies on something such as Amazon's cloud, when the cloud dies or is successfully attacked, everyone goes down.
The same is true of DNS or a major home ISP. Or is your argument "only those dependencies that are provably absolutely necessary, and not a single one more"?
This being said in my experience growing up it was always the independent small, and college radio stations who seemed to carry an authentic sound
You're fortunate not to have lived in a city where NPR and the local Bible college snapped up all the noncommercial frequencies (88.1 to 91.9 MHz), to the point where the local extension of the state college was crowded out.
My complaint is even stations unaffiliated with each other seem to be timing their commercial breaks at the same time.
How much of that is related to national radio regulators' requirement that all stations announce call letters at the same time, plus competition with other "publishers" (radio stations selling ad space) for advertisers?
I have not built up an infrastructure depending on computers I don't own, don't control, have no ability to see to the physical and network security of, where I don't have any control of reliability, redundancy, backup, availability of resources, longevity, OS level, OS and other software updates
I'm interested in how you eliminated dependencies on your home ISP's DHCP server, backbone routers, the DNS, the OCSP server of the CA that provided your site's TLS certificate, etc. And without advertisement exchanges or subscription payment servers, how do you afford to keep your server powered on and connected to the Internet?
Because Microsoft wanted to skim 30% by routing everything through its Store rather than allowing publishers to recompile their Win32 desktop applications for ARM.
If there's something you want to install that's not in the windows store(apps already vetted by MS), simply disable it!
Provided you even can. The existing Windows RT has shipped with this feature forced on. Besides, let me know when even something like Visual Studio is available as a UWP application.
Only team agents belonging to either the Apple Developer Program or the Apple Developer Enterprise Program are allowed to create Developer ID certificates and sign apps or installer packages using them.
enroll in the Apple Developer Program. The cost is 99 USD per membership year.
As far as I can gather from the pages I linked, a valid Apple Developer Program membership is required to sign a macOS application for distribution outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users, and renewals thereof are required to sign updates to said application that are also distributed outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users. Perhaps you were confusing it with the relatively recent decision to allow a copy of Xcode associated with a particular Apple ID to sign for an iOS device associated to the same Apple ID, which is not distribution. Please help me and other readers of this discussion by explaining what I misread.
Businesses that can neither switch from their current major version of Windows nor switch from their current applications ought to plan an exit strategy that shall be put into effect once their current major version of Windows becomes no longer supported and a vulnerability is found that threatens the security of the personal information that these businesses are storing on behalf of their customers.
"The next version of Windows will not run older applications, in particular the application on which our business relies. The version of Windows currently deployed throughout our company will stop receiving updates to correct security defects on 20xx-04-xx, and vulnerabilities discovered after that date are likely to expose our customers' private data to criminal intruders, in turn harming the reputation of our business. Therefore, to continue our business, we need to migrate either off this application or off Windows. Contributing to the Wine project will let us ditch Windows once extended support ends."
People don't care. They're sick of commercials and $200/mo cable bills.
Broadband Internet + Netflix + Hulu + HBO Now + Amazon Prime + CBS All Access + Sling (for ESPN) can add up fairly quickly as well, and Hulu and CBS All Access still show commercials to subscribers who don't pay the commercial-free surcharge.
Same with athletes. Clubs pay a lot for players not because they work really hard, but because they generate lots of revenue.
It's different there. With professional athletes, what generates revenue for a club is easier to correlate with quantifiable performance. More wins means more butts in the home field's seats. A player not generating value gets relegated to a developmental league.
You'll need a special license from the government - administered by Microsoft - to run dev tools and debuggers.
From what government? For 95 percent of the world, Microsoft is foreign. Why would one country's government let a foreign corporation administer its developer licenses?
or they can't afford more than an existing hand-me-down PC.
Or better yet you do as I have done. Buy an off-lease Lenovo Thinkpad for $150.00 or so [...] and if you really need Wi-Fi a $10 Netgear WG111V3 will always work in Linux
That's good to know for people with $160 for a project. I too have had good luck with GNU/Linux on an off-lease ThinkPad, needing only to install the proprietary firmware for iwlwifi. But in this particular case, a hand-me-down PC with a hand-me-down Windows license is $0, which is $160 less and which is all my source was willing to spend on an experimental PC to run retro games.
I really don't like using Wi-Fi though, as all of the 11 channels are super congested already in most locations, and even if they are not, an Ethernet connection to the router is much faster!
A 400 foot (122 m) cable run to the basement where my source is staying (long story including disinheritance) is more than $0, as it needs a switch in the middle to repeat the signal. And my source found that one of his five WLAN could get a signal in the less congested 5 GHz band (as can the off-lease ThinkPad I tried).
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What makes you think all countries will both A. require citizens to obtain a license to speak publicly in the form of a computer program and B. choose a local subsidiary of Microsoft as the administrator of said license program?
a TiVo DVR will not function without a TiVo subscription.
secondly you pay ONCE for lifetime program guide on TiVo and never have to pay again for the life of the box
The price of a $200 TiVo DVR and its required $550 All-In Plan will pay for at least a couple years of cable TV, particularly if your cable provider offers a "double play" bundle that includes TV for only $240 per year more than Internet-only service, and particularly if the DVR breaks soon after its factory warranty expires.
If you wanted a tablet that you can throw desktop apps on, you would get the Pro version that runs x86 and windows 8/10 pro.
For which Microsoft charged twice what it charged for the Surface non-Pro, and at least three times the price of the netbooks that had preceded it.
"I have plenty of time during which to discover new music, but it's all commute time, and Internet access during commute time is expensive."
national radio regulators' requirement that all stations announce call letters at the same time
Assuming this is true in the US, what problem does this regulation purport to address?
I don't know. Wikipedia's article about station identification in the United States doesn't describe a clear rationale for the FCC's requirement that licensed radio stations state the call letters and city of license near the top of each hour.
the service is getting USA, FX, FreeForm, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, and Fox Business. [...] the service includes national coverage from ESPN, FoxSports, and NBC SportsNet. Also offered are regional sports networks from Fox and Comcast, SEC Network, Big Ten and ESPNU
Sure glad I have an antenna on the roof and TiVo in my living room and can get all that for 100% free.
First, none of the channels mentioned in this quotation of the summary are available through a rooftop antenna. They are exclusive to multichannel subscription television. Second, a TiVo DVR will not function without a TiVo subscription.
Do you also skip movies because of product placement?
I have not built up an infrastructure depending on computers I don't own, don't control
I'm interested in how you eliminated dependencies on your home ISP's DHCP server
I have static IPs.
First, most home ISPs charge extra per month for that. Second, Comcast requires subscribers with a static IP to either forfeit the static IP or rent and use Comcast's modem, which reintroduces "depending on computers I don't own, don't control", and moving to an area whose cable company is not Comcast can prove cost prohibitive, particularly if your work is unrelated to your website.
I don't serve HTTPS. I'm not collecting information about you, or serving illegal or secret information.
Making even a completely public, completely static website available over cleartext HTTP and not HTTPS has three consequences. First, the most popular western web search engine will demote your site. Second, you run the risk of a rogue ISP injecting pop-up advertisements and other malware into your pages, as Comcast has done (source 1; source 2). Third, you cannot make resources on your site available for transclusion into sites that do use HTTPS due to the mixed content policy.
And without advertisement exchanges or subscription payment servers, how do you afford to keep your server powered on and connected to the Internet?
I work.
Is your work related to your website? If not, what benefit do you gain from having a website, and do you ever have to take time off your day job to keep it updated?
When many people concentrate their dependencies on something such as Amazon's cloud, when the cloud dies or is successfully attacked, everyone goes down.
The same is true of DNS or a major home ISP. Or is your argument "only those dependencies that are provably absolutely necessary, and not a single one more"?
This being said in my experience growing up it was always the independent small, and college radio stations who seemed to carry an authentic sound
You're fortunate not to have lived in a city where NPR and the local Bible college snapped up all the noncommercial frequencies (88.1 to 91.9 MHz), to the point where the local extension of the state college was crowded out.
The radio caters to people unwilling to use the internet to discover music
Such as those with no cellular data plan to discover music during drive time and no time to devote to discovering music at home.
with the internet and things like SoundCloud there is effectively no barrier for any music to reach any listener in such a context.
Except the price of a cellular data plan. FM radio in a vehicle needs no AT&T&T&T subscription.
My complaint is even stations unaffiliated with each other seem to be timing their commercial breaks at the same time.
How much of that is related to national radio regulators' requirement that all stations announce call letters at the same time, plus competition with other "publishers" (radio stations selling ad space) for advertisers?
I have not built up an infrastructure depending on computers I don't own, don't control, have no ability to see to the physical and network security of, where I don't have any control of reliability, redundancy, backup, availability of resources, longevity, OS level, OS and other software updates
I'm interested in how you eliminated dependencies on your home ISP's DHCP server, backbone routers, the DNS, the OCSP server of the CA that provided your site's TLS certificate, etc. And without advertisement exchanges or subscription payment servers, how do you afford to keep your server powered on and connected to the Internet?
Because Microsoft wanted to skim 30% by routing everything through its Store rather than allowing publishers to recompile their Win32 desktop applications for ARM.
If there's something you want to install that's not in the windows store(apps already vetted by MS), simply disable it!
Provided you even can. The existing Windows RT has shipped with this feature forced on. Besides, let me know when even something like Visual Studio is available as a UWP application.
Those macOS (and iOS) Developer Certs are FREE, as in Beer
Only for programs that you compile and run on machines associated with the same ID.
dumbass.
Ad hominem, uncalled for.
It only costs if you want to be listed in the Mac App Store (or iOS App Store).
Or if you want other people who have Gatekeeper configured for "identified developers" to be able to run your software. From "Distributing Apps Outside the Mac App Store":
From Apple Developer Program: How It Works:
As far as I can gather from the pages I linked, a valid Apple Developer Program membership is required to sign a macOS application for distribution outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users, and renewals thereof are required to sign updates to said application that are also distributed outside the Mac App Store to Gatekeeper users. Perhaps you were confusing it with the relatively recent decision to allow a copy of Xcode associated with a particular Apple ID to sign for an iOS device associated to the same Apple ID, which is not distribution. Please help me and other readers of this discussion by explaining what I misread.
Businesses that can neither switch from their current major version of Windows nor switch from their current applications ought to plan an exit strategy that shall be put into effect once their current major version of Windows becomes no longer supported and a vulnerability is found that threatens the security of the personal information that these businesses are storing on behalf of their customers.
Why do you focus so much attention on young people?
I focus on situations similar to those to which I am exposed, and there are young people in my family.
Most high school students DON'T have comp sci 101 homework
Don't, but will. (Source: "Making it Count: Computer Science Spreads as Graduation Requirement" by Allie Bidwell)
What's so impossible about this?
"The next version of Windows will not run older applications, in particular the application on which our business relies. The version of Windows currently deployed throughout our company will stop receiving updates to correct security defects on 20xx-04-xx, and vulnerabilities discovered after that date are likely to expose our customers' private data to criminal intruders, in turn harming the reputation of our business. Therefore, to continue our business, we need to migrate either off this application or off Windows. Contributing to the Wine project will let us ditch Windows once extended support ends."
You do block outgoing DNS requests with the exception of your own DNS server, right?
How well does that work when the request is on a nonstandard port and tunneled in an encrypted protocol?
People don't care. They're sick of commercials and $200/mo cable bills.
Broadband Internet + Netflix + Hulu + HBO Now + Amazon Prime + CBS All Access + Sling (for ESPN) can add up fairly quickly as well, and Hulu and CBS All Access still show commercials to subscribers who don't pay the commercial-free surcharge.
Makes you wonder why would you pay for regular cable.
Live sports, political talk shows, and the house porn they call HGTV.
Same with athletes. Clubs pay a lot for players not because they work really hard, but because they generate lots of revenue.
It's different there. With professional athletes, what generates revenue for a club is easier to correlate with quantifiable performance. More wins means more butts in the home field's seats. A player not generating value gets relegated to a developmental league.
You'll need a special license from the government - administered by Microsoft - to run dev tools and debuggers.
From what government? For 95 percent of the world, Microsoft is foreign. Why would one country's government let a foreign corporation administer its developer licenses?
or they can't afford more than an existing hand-me-down PC.
Or better yet you do as I have done. Buy an off-lease Lenovo Thinkpad for $150.00 or so [...] and if you really need Wi-Fi a $10 Netgear WG111V3 will always work in Linux
That's good to know for people with $160 for a project. I too have had good luck with GNU/Linux on an off-lease ThinkPad, needing only to install the proprietary firmware for iwlwifi. But in this particular case, a hand-me-down PC with a hand-me-down Windows license is $0, which is $160 less and which is all my source was willing to spend on an experimental PC to run retro games.
I really don't like using Wi-Fi though, as all of the 11 channels are super congested already in most locations, and even if they are not, an Ethernet connection to the router is much faster!
A 400 foot (122 m) cable run to the basement where my source is staying (long story including disinheritance) is more than $0, as it needs a switch in the middle to repeat the signal. And my source found that one of his five WLAN could get a signal in the less congested 5 GHz band (as can the off-lease ThinkPad I tried).